puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Org. for the Storm and the Sky

  5 Lovers' clash

  9 Triangular architectural element

 14 Body of a ship

 15 Old sock's problem

 16 Words preceding bad news

 17 False god

 18 Letter before kappa

 19 Book jacket parts

 20 *"Show Me the Way" rocker (In this clue's answer, note letters 1-2 + 13 along with letters 7-9)

 23 Pantry pest

 24 Color TV pioneer

 25 *Attorneys' group (... letters 1-3 + 14 along with letters 4-6)

 33 Venus de Milo's lack

 34 Slipup

 35 Pool stick

 36 Place to study 21-Down

 37 Shakespeare, informally

 39 That thing's

 40 Time for a holiday party, maybe

 41 Door, e.g.

 42 Agitated state

 43 *Business presentation? (... letters 1 + 12-14 along with letters 6-8)

 47 Gobbled up

 48 Gentle touch, forward or backward

 49 Where a stray may stay, or what the first indicated word in each starred clue's answer is for the second?

 56 Title in a palindrome whose second word is "I'm"

 58 Greeting in Granada

 59 "Not true" comeback

 60 Athlete's best effort

 61 Awesome

 62 Western alliance acronym

 63 Rover on Earth

 64 Intro to physics?

 65 Unit of weight


DOWN

  1 Beat, as cream

  2 Naked

  3 Ink smudge

  4 Very attentive

  5 Work periods

  6 Shoddy

  7 Baja's opposite

  8 Mets, Jets or Nets

  9 Present whose cost is no mystery

 10 Financially solvent

 11 Word after "jelly" or "jumping"

 12 Drink from a dish

 13 Workplaces for RNs

 21 Messenger molecule

 22 Former

 25 "Fantastic!"

 26 Color of honey

 27 "Ciao"

 28 Sphere of influence

 29 Construction site sight

 30 Hockey infraction

 31 Protruding navel

 32 Sticks together?

 33 Name that anagrams to "lace"

 37 Cheated on

 38 ___ pants (baggy garment)

 42 Small spruce, say

 44 Site of a canal that joins oceans

 45 Cornell's home

 46 Hollywood legend West

 49 Name in a palindrome whose second word is "I'm"

 50 "Excuse me ..."

 51 Bound along

 52 Thin cut

 53 Russian ruler, once

 54 This, in Spanish

 55 Study or lecture hall

 56 "Gee!"

 57 Before today

solution